LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Lamar Van Williams,
pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday, to trafficking fentanyl, before
U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew A. Stinnett.
Williams admitted that on July 23, 2019, he was in
possession of a digital scale and 23 grams of fentanyl, items he tried to
discard while fleeing from the Lexington Police.
Williams was indicted in December 2019.
Robert M. Duncan, Jr., United States Attorney for the
Eastern District of Kentucky; Jeffrey Todd Scott, Special Agent in Charge, DEA
Louisville Field Division; and Chief Lawrence Weathers, Lexington Police
Department, jointly announced the guilty plea.
The investigation was conducted by the DEA and Lexington
Police Department. The United States was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney
David Kiebler.
Williams is scheduled to be sentenced on September 8, 2020.
He faces up to 30 years in prison for the drug trafficking charge. However, any
sentence will be imposed by the Court after its consideration of the U.S.
Sentencing Guidelines and the federal sentencing statutes.
This case was prosecuted as part of Operation Synthetic
Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), a focused enforcement effort that seeks to reduce the
supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas.
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